Great review on the new powerbooks. The tiny keyboard is an obvious dissapointment, but it’s the quality of that big 17″ screen that prevents me from rushing out to buy.

It has the same specs as the 17″ iMac display which, at 1440×900 is very weak. There’s a Sony 16″ display laptop with 1600×1200 resolution, which is way way better. Given that the 17″ screen powerbook will appeal most to creative types used to working on much larger desktop monitors, why has Apple compromised so much on the display quality?

I was initially very excited about the new 17″ powerbook, but now I wonder if it wouldn’t make more sense to wait for the updated version, and hope they get it right.